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2681 Etymology dictionary, p. medico-legal (adj.).1
medico-legal (adj.)
2682 Etymology dictionary, p. medico-legal (adj.).2
"of or relating to law and medicine," by 1824, from medico- + legal .
2683 Etymology dictionary, p. merge (v.).3
… specific legal sense of "absorb an estate, contract, etc. into another." Transitive sense of "cause to be absorbed or to disappear in something else" is from 1728 …
2684 Etymology dictionary, p. merger (n.).2
… in legal sense, "extinguishment by absorption," originally of real estate titles, from merge (v.), on analogy of French infinitives used as nouns (see waiver ). From …
2685 Etymology dictionary, p. messuage (n.).2
legal term for "a dwelling house," late 14c., (late 13c. in Anglo-Latin), from Anglo-French messuage, which probably is a clerical error for mesnage (see menage ). Originally …
2686 Etymology dictionary, p. mile (n.).3
… by legal act at 320 perches (5,280 feet) by statute in Elizabeth's reign.
2687 Etymology dictionary, p. minority (n.).3
… under legal age" is from 1540s; that of "smaller number or part, smaller of two aggregates into which a whole is divided numerically" is from 1736. Specifically …
2688 Etymology dictionary, p. minor (n.).2
… under legal age for the performance of certain acts" (Latin used minores (plural) for "the young"). Musical sense is from 1797 (see the adjective). Academic meaning …
2689 Etymology dictionary, p. misdemeanor (n.).2
… the legal sense of "an indictable offense of less grave nature than a felony;" from mis- (1) "wrong" + Middle English demenure "conduct, management" (see demeanor ). Related …
2690 Etymology dictionary, p. misprision (n.).3
… in legal writers that the word means etymologically "failure to denounce" a crime.
2691 Etymology dictionary, p. moot (v.).2
… , begin legal proceedings." The meaning "raise or bring forward for discussion" is from 1680s. Related: Mooted; mooting .
2692 Etymology dictionary, p. moral (adj.).3
… to legal ).
2693 Etymology dictionary, p. moratorium (n.).2
… a legal term for "authorization to a debtor to postpone due payment," from neuter of Late Latin moratorius "tending to delay," from Latin morari "to delay," from …
2694 Etymology dictionary, p. mortgagor (n.).2
"one who grants a property as security for debt," 1580s, agent noun in Latin form from mortgage (v.). Native form mortgager is attested from 1630s. Barbarous mortgageor seems to be limited to legal writing.
2695 Etymology dictionary, p. motion (n.).3
… in legal sense of "application to a court or judge." To be in motion "in a state of motion" is from c. 1600; to set in motion "set working" is from 1590s. To go through the …
2696 Etymology dictionary, p. mufti (n.1).2
1580s, muphtie "official head of the state religion in Turkey," from Arabic mufti "judge," active participle (with formative prefix mu- ) of afta "to give," conjugated form of fata "he gave a (legal) decision" (compare fatwa ).
2697 Etymology dictionary, p. natural (adj.).3
… not legal status).
2698 Etymology dictionary, p. neck (n.).4
… in legal executions. Meaning "narrow part at the top of a bottle" is from late 14c.; meaning "part of a garment which covers the neck" is from 1520s. Meaning "long, slender …
2699 Etymology dictionary, p. New Year's Eve.2
… though legal documents then shifted to March 25, popular calendars and almanacs continued to begin on January 1. The calendar reform of 1751 restored the …
2700 Etymology dictionary, p. nincompoop (n.).3
… Latin legal phrase non compos mentis "insane, mentally incompetent" (c. 1600), the connection is denied by the OED's etymologists because the earliest forms …